If capello gets sacked we deserve all thats coming to us. I hope he stays and gets to have the next euro championships with a new set of players, as there are certainly a few who are to old and I would not be surprised if lampard and maybe even terry were not picked.

Oh wait, I think it's most of the press/supporters in England fault for overestimating the ability of the national team. Face it you're not that good and you went out at the right stage. Only good enough to get 2nd place in a weak group.

Would that be the capello who played terry out of position who was in his usual [and now wrong] position for the goals brought on Heskey when you needed goals then brought on a left sided midfielder to play on the right whilst leaving your best midfielder on the left rather than play him in the hole he excels in whislt sticking to 4-4-2 depite lacking the players to do this?
Certainly the players did not play well but his choices and style did not help "the cause".

I think we need to face up to the fact that football is truely a global game now .Very few teams get hammered constantly unlike the emerging nations dod in the 70s.Look how Greece have improved as well as some of the Asian countries and the African nations produce quality teams now

He made some serious mistakes in squad selection, team formation and tactical substitutions. But ultimately it's the players on the pitch who have the biggest influence and England simply aren't good enough. We can't keep the ball and bottle it under pressure.

Regardless of the picking/positioning of the fellas on the field, they were the best that England had to offer by definition of their being there and were found wanting in every match. Not a troll, and certainly not a football fan but thats how I see it.

im more of an eggshaped ball fan to be honest and not up on my footie.

maybe a dull question but if roonie and the gang were unhappy with the manager and felt constrained by his tactics why couldnt they just say "f*** it" and play their own game, what did they have to loose, i mean if roonie went rambo and scored say 2 goals and they won the game he's hardly going to side line him for the next game is he?

The loss to Germany wasn't the manager's fault.
England were hit on the counter, the defensive lack of pace, inability to react to the guile of their opponents and lack of cutting edge going forwards was their downfall yesterday.

The media hype before they left for the world cup was their other downfall.

One of the biggest problems is the premier league. If the likes of Lampard, Milner, Upson, Johnson, Heskey, etc are the best we've got because of the diminishing amount of English players playing at the highest level, then as seen on Tv we're in trouble.

I also think that the Manager has upset the self-centered prim-ma donas by actually introducing a more disciplined regime compared to the Mc Claren period.

capello - right lads were 2 goals down, there's 20 mins left, we need someone to stick a few goals in and get us back in the game,
Crouch (40 games, 21 goals for england) - right boss i'll go warm up
capello - sit where you are lanky, emile get warming up
heskey - (62 games, 7 goals) what's a goal boss?

However, coming on as a substitute on the 71st minute to be expected to turn the game around against a rampant German side who were by then 3 goals up - we could have had a sub with the ability of Messi - and still got nothing. The game was lost by then.

how many english players are in la liga, serie A etc? None is it? They're insular goons, carried by overseas players who have a desire to go to another country with strange food and a different language. rooney wanting to stay at ManU for the rest of his career suggests he's a non-thinking xenophobic moron, and few of the others are any better. choose the easy option every time. stay close to mummy and fish fingers.

if chelsea had to field an all english team, they'd be middle of the table. the players lack ambition. the coach is maybe used to working with different calibre of player who need to win for their own self esteem, rather than relying on a bentley and a skinny blonde.

Its all the ball's fault. That terrible ball that even N. Korea seemed to get the hang of and England's best never managed to work out how to control, pass or shoot straight. Blame Adidas it's a conspiracy!
Also interesting to see that foreign players in the premiership aren't suffering form the heavy workload - Tevez for example.
Capello got England into the last 16 which is a fair result given the talent on offer.

However, a few years ago, the then management/officials of the England Football Squad went to Manchester to see how the GB Track Cycling Squad had managed to turn themselves around. this was before Beijing but even then Britain had suddenly come from almost nowhere (bar Boardman's gold at Barcelona) to a squad with serious potential which came to fruition at Beijing (as well as the previous World Track Championships).

The wendyballers were shown what the squad do in training, the commitment, time and effort that goes into it, the psychology, physiology, nutrition, the tiny % gains that add up to total dominance and they basically said "we can't do this, the players would never agree to it"

So until you have a team that actually wants to win it and shows a bit of commitment, we're stuck with crap performances while they sit there collecting their outrageous salaries every week and wondering what celeb gossip mag they can get in next. Can't believe the "they were tired" excuse - try riding a 2 Grand Tours plus a whole host of other major races, Classics etc, then come back and talk about being tired. Poncing round on a pitch for 90 minutes twice a week does not constitute "a heavy season" unless you haven't done any training.

People moan about too many foreign players in the Premier League preventing young English talent coming through.

Personally, I think that if the England team is to improve, more English players need to be plying their trade abroad. Technically, the English players are on a different planet to the Brazilians and Argentinians.

This, Uruguay have 2 players who play in Uruguay, none in the prem. Brazil Team is spread around Spain, Portugal, Italy, Turkey and Germany. We import a whole lot of skill because we don't have it here.